Holiday Favorites

Ring in the Season
with the West Sacramento Community Orchestra!

Among our holiday favorites this year:

The Bells of Christmas

Christmas Memories

(Frosty the Snowman, Here Comes Santa Clause, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and more)

Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)

March of the Toys (from Babes in Toyland)

A Vaughn Williams Christmas (traditional)

It's Christmas Time!  A Medley for Orchestra

and featuring Handel's Pastorale from The Messiah

with our signature selections

O Holy Night!

and

Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride

Rehearsals Resume

Rehearsals resume Tuesday, August 17, as we prepare for our Fall Concert.

August 28th Fun Run for the Arts

JOIN US AUGUST 28th FOR A WALK IN THE PARK!

12th Annual

5K WALK/RUN

SUPPORT YOUR
WEST SACRAMENTO COMMUNITY  ORCHESTRA

We will receive 100% of pledges designated  to WSCO on the Race for the Arts Entry Form

EVENT: RACE FOR THE ARTS – 5 km Run/Walk and Fun Runs
DATE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010
TIME: 8:30 A.M. - 5 km Run/Walk Start (3.1 miles)
9:30 A.M. – Kids’ Fun Runs

WHERE: WILLIAM LAND PARK, Sacramento

COST: Adults - $25 Kids 12 and under - $15
20% discount for groups of 10 or more (must register together)
Entry fee includes Race T-shirt and post-race refreshments

Race entry forms and donation forms at http://www.raceforthearts.com/


Entertainment throughout, interactive booths, costumed characters and post-run party!

Satchmo!

Click here for Hello Dolly Live

Flag Day Concert Features

Enjoy a free concert of festive and patriotic music with the West Sacramento Community Orchestra on Sunday, June 13, 3 p.m., at the Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento. With the theme, “Celebrate the American Spirit,” the orchestra presents familiar selections of musical Americana, including Copland’s” Hoe-Down,” Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” and a medley of Louie Armstrong’s signature tunes in “Satchmo.” In recognition of Flag Day (June 14), the orchestra also offers a musical salute to our armed forces. The program repeats on Tuesday, June 15, 7:30 p.m., at Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento.

Spring Concert: Curtain Up!

The West Sacramento Community Orchestra
Presents
A Spring Concert
With big band favorites and classical selections, including

*Salute to Ol’ Blue Eyes
(Sinatra signature tunes: Strangers in the Night, That’s Life, and Other Favorites)
*Curtain Up!
(There’s No Business Like Show Business, The Phantom of the Opera, One, Don’t Rain on My Parade, If He Walked Into My Life, Everything’s Coming Up Roses)
*Komm Süsser Tod (Bach-Stokowski)
*Sylvia (Ballet Suite) (Delibes)
*Academic Festival Overture (Brahms)
&
*Irish Medley (traditional) (arr. Ralph Herman)
(featuring the talents of our string orchestra)

FREE ADMISSION
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 4:00 PM (new time!)
Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:30 PM
Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Blvd.
(near Fruitridge)

For more information, please call 916-991-5262

Looking Ahead in 2010

The Spring Concert promises a varietal garden of "season appropriate" musical selections, from Irish medleys, to Bach and Brahms, and even "A Salute to Ol' Blue Eyes (Sinatra)."  Mark your calendars now: March 14 and 16.